Seeking Food Justice and a Just City through Local Action in Food Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Transformation

Reece, Jason

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.08b.012

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“…Secondly, several studies point to the return and the growing prominence of cities and local and regional governments in the creation and implementation of food policies (Fouilleux & Michel, 2020;Brand et al, 2019;Raja et al, 2018;IPES Food, 2017). The enhanced role played by cities and local and regional governments in food policy stems from the intensification of urbanization and the overlapping of food, environmental and social issues that challenge and demand responses from policy actors in local spaces (Fages & Bricas, 2017;IPES Food, 2017); the continuation of the local as a space for innovation; collaborative efforts and a primary sphere of influence and operation for actions supporting social justice (Reece, 2018); and the opportunities that the local and regional offer for bringing actors and sectors together and the creation of systemic actions that replace, complement or compete with other scales (Guéneau et al,chapter 12) linked and aligned with regional characteristics.…”

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Public policies and food systems in Latin America

Coq¹,

Gueneau²,

Niederle³

2022

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Large-scale food production has benefited from changes in food safety standards because, until now, these have focused on a hygienic and statistical view of contamination risks. This evaluation system, which has tended to standardize food according to essentially sanitary criteria, has effectively excluded a large part of non-industrialized products derived from family farming from sustainable food policies (Cintrão, 2017). Moreover, due to the adoption of food safety regulations, the supply of ultra-processed foods has strengthened the dual trend towards food industry concentration and food standardization.Another effect is that people in urban and even rural areas of Latin America have experienced a rapid transformation of their diets. This shift, together with a decrease 2. These acronyms are in Spanish or Portuguese (see the list at the end of this book).3. According to data on obesity in Latin America, the percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight increased from 49.8% in 2000 to 59.6% in 2018, and the percentage of children aged 5-19 years who are overweight increased from 21.6% to 30.6% .The third part of this book explores recent changes in food policies. In Argentina,

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Public policies and food systems in Latin America

Coq¹,

Gueneau²,

Niederle³

2022

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The Relational Infrastructure of Food System Policy Development

Irish,

Clark,

Hodgson

et al. 2024

Urban Agriculture

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The process of developing food system policies (FSP) that comprehensively address systemic issues requires the inclusion of a diverse array of actors from all parts of the food system. Drawing on literature on collaborative governance, we argue that interpersonal relationships, and the factors that facilitate their development and maintenance, are essential to FSP development. Based on this assertion, we ask: how do interpersonal relationships shape collaborative food systems policy processes? Specifically, we explore: (1) what motivates the emergence of interpersonal relationships in FSP; (2) what are the characteristics of social environments that foster such interpersonal relationships; and (3) what traits/activities foster interpersonal relationships in food systems policy processes.This research draws on qualitative analysis of 26 semi-structured interviews in four preeminent examples of FSP development in the United States identified by Growing Food Connections (GFC), an FSP research group: Seattle, WA; Lawrence/Douglas County, KS; a five-county region in Minnesota; and Marquette County, MI. Following an inductive description of key cross-case themes responding to the previous questions, we discuss the implications of these findings for equity and ethics in FSP development. This discussion highlights that, while equity did not appear as an explicit motivation for developing interpersonal relationships, practices of humble listening by policy practitioners foster inclusive engagement as a basis for equitable collaboration.

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